Small business owners struggling to ‘keep up’ under Harris-Biden economy as election looms

No amount of gaslighting is going to change the fact that Americans are greatly suffering under the Biden-Harris economy and the prolonged period of crushing inflation that has been unleashed by Democrat policies.

Despite the media fixation on abortion and “muh Trump” as the issues that will decide the election, economics remains the top concern with voters, especially when it comes to small business owners who have been kicked in the gut with no relief in sight under a potential Kamala Harris administration.

“I saw what the economy was doing during the Trump administration. I was able to grow my business. I was able to open more locations. And, you know, that hasn’t been the case in the Biden-Harris administration,” said Rafael Arroyo, a Hispanic small business owner.

“I’ve been stagnant. I’ve been dealing with fighting these rising costs, having to battle for employee pay and trying to raise the prices so I can keep up,” Arroyo said on a recent edition of “Fox & Friends” this week.

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“It’s really crazy how much it’s increased and especially in niche businesses or things in auto parts and things like that. I mean, some things we’re seeing double and triple the price. It’s really hard to make any money like that,” he added.

During the segment that aired on Wednesday, Ryan Sprankle who owns Pennsylvania-based Sprankle’s Market explained how the inflation of “Bidenomics” is eating grocers like him alive.

“We’ve tried to just become super, super efficient in that way and especially in the buying end of it to try to hold the prices. But in all reality, we’ve been forced to give up margin to be competitive, and that’s hurt us because we haven’t had the money to reinvest like we have previously,” he said.

This week, Sprankle’s made national news when Trump dropped by for a visit, giving a mother of three $100 to help with the grocery bill.

Shana Gray, another small business owner who voted for Biden in 2020, was forced to close her cafe due to the overwhelming burden of rising costs along with harassment from leftists after she complained and shared her thoughts with Doocy.

“I was forced to close. The weight of the cost of goods. The weight of the economy itself. It’s just more or less my customer could not come in to spend residual income,” Gray said. “And then to add insult to injury because of my appearance of making these issues vocal, I end up getting a side of liberal trolls that wanted to shut me down as well. So, that was a lot to deal with in this rocky economy.”

She said that it’s “definitely not looking” like she’s going to be voting Democrat this time around, criticizing Harris’ economic policies.

“[Harris] spoke about the $50,000 that she plans to give to small businesses. But understand, those small little economic injections of capital is pointless if you can’t get things to balance. That’s the unfortunate part,” she said.

“I would just say to Harris and the Biden-Harris administration, if you had all these great ideas, why haven’t you done it? Republicans are pretty pro-small business, so I’m sure you could get something done if they’re actually good ideas. But it looks like she’s just waiting to try to get elected,” Arroyo told Doocy.

According to a recent Fox News poll, 6 out of 10 voters said that grocery and housing costs are a prime factor in how people plan to vote in November.

Chris Donaldson

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